Howie Day. I have many of his things signed from way back when he was a small bar player in Boston . . . even a note he wrote for one of my music classes that says "Alyssa was at my show this evening. Please excuse her from class. Dad."

Bel Biv Devoe or Toni Tony Tone

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." -Anatole France